PLM from Day OnePresented by: Amir Gluckman, Supply Chain & IT Manager, Pentalum Technologies

May 2011

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• Wind Measurement Sensors for Wind Resources Assessment and Wind Energy Farms.

• Established: 2009

• No. of Employees: 17

• Location: Rehovot Science Park

• Actual stage: Operating prototypes.

• Certifications:

• ISO9001 certified.

• ISO1400 in process (May 2011)

• Member of AEWA & EWEA

About Pentalum

With the same cost of two 80m meteorological towers - use a SpiDAR with multiple optical heads to reduce the uncertainty of your wind measurements and

significantly increase your wind farm Annual Energy Production (AEP)

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SpiDAR for Resource Assessments

60m-80m Metrological Mast

A high performance, low cost wind sensing LiDAR (the SpiDAR™) based on unique algorithms and

common telecom optical components for:

• Wind Turbine Control – to optimize wind turbine performance.

• Wind Resource Assessment – to lower the level of measurements uncertainty and improve micro-siting.

• Forecasting – to significantly improve the forecasting of the wind conditions, hours up to days ahead of time.

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Pentalum’s Innovation

Use a SpiDAR with multiple optical heads for accurate on-going wind measurements that support control and optimization of the wind turbines

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SpiDAR for Operational Wind Farms

Pentalum’s Information System

• ERP: QAD Apps (MFG/Pro)

• PLM: PTC Windchill

• eCAD: OrCad

• mCAD: Solidworks 2011

PLM from Day One – Why?

• Experience Centralization.

• Processes Unification.

• Single Point of Contact.

• eCAD / mCAD Data Management

• Internal Collaboration.

• ERP / CRM integration

• External Collaboration.

• Suppliers / Subcontractors involvement.

PLM before ERP - Why?

• R&D Product Life Cycle Monitoring from Day One.

• Most of Data Processing focused in R&D.

• R&D Mass Configuration (include changes) Processes Follow Up.

R&D/Operations Data Interchange

PLM – Scope of Product Development

PLM - Timetable

• Concept– Client Server vs. SaaS

• Data Centralization– Virtual PDM Process

– Tech. Data Management (Active, Pending, Archive)

• Optional Software– PTC Windchill

– Siemens TeamCenter

– Dassault Enovia

– Oracle Agile

– Infor

• Chosen: PTC Windchill

December March

January February March

12-10

Data Centralization

2-12

Concept (Client Server vs. SaaS)

4-12 - 20-12

PLM Software Search

13-1 - 18-1

Benchmark

18-1

Decision

12-22 - 1-13

RFQ

18-1 - 23-1

Negotiation

21-12

“Final Two” Decision23-1

Contract

30-1 - 3-3

Installation & Implementation (Stage 1)

3-3

“Go Live”

PLM Stage 1 – Implementation Steps

• Installation

• Data Migration

• Tests

• Interfaces:

• eCAD

• mCAD

• QAD Apps

• Go Live

Thank You